# sfSwiftMailerExtendedPlugin (for symfony 1.4) #
A large traffic website has a lot of emails to sent.
People are allowed to register, request forgotten passwords, receive newsletters etc.
For all this scenarios we need to send emails:
* After registration the system sends a registration email, which the user has to approve
* The system sends a confirmation email, saying the registration was successfull, as soon as the user confirmed the link in the registration email
* Registered users can recommend certain articles to their friends - system sends email
* The system sends newsletters
* The system sends log messages, reports to administrators, messages
* etc
We can give some of these mails a higher priority. For example registration mails should be send in every case. But user messages have lower
importance because we have an internal messaging service for example.
It is necesary that important emails always receive their destination. Symfony lacks a definition of different email transports.
With sfSwiftMailerExtendedPlugin you are able to define different email transports.
For example gmail for public emails, paid smtp server for approved/registration emails.
There is also the possibility, that one of the services fails due to connection problems, service interruptions and so on.
You are also able to define fallback transports.
At least one transport has to be defined in factories.yml.
Installation
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* Install the plugin (via a package)
$ symfony plugin:install sfSwiftMailerExtendedPlugin
* Or install the plugin
$ svn co http//svn.symfony-project.com/plugins/sfSwiftMailerExtendedPlugin/trunk plugins/sfSwiftMailerExtendedPlugin
* Activate the plugin in the `config/ProjectConfiguration.class.php`
[php]
class ProjectConfiguration extends sfProjectConfiguration
{
public function setup()
{
$this->enablePlugins(array(
'...',
'sfSwiftMailerExtendedPlugin',
'...'
));
}
}
* Set mailer class in factories.yml in your application
[yml]
all:
mailer:
class: sfMailerExtended
param:
logging: %SF_LOGGING_ENABLED%
charset: %SF_CHARSET%
delivery_strategy: realtime
default_transport: local
max_retries : 3
transports:
local:
class: Swift_SmtpTransport
param:
host: localhost
port: 25
encryption: ~
username: ~
password: ~
fallback: local
gmail:
class: Swift_SmtpTransport
param:
host: localhost
port: 25
encryption: ~
username: ~
password: ~
fallback: gmail
* Clear the cache
$ symfony cc
Send email
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* Sending emails from an action
[php]
$message = Swift_Message::newInstance()
->setFrom(array('admin@example.com' => 'Example.com'))
->setTo('user@example.com')
->setReplyTo('support@example.com')
->setSubject('Subject')
->setBody('Body');
try {
$numOfMails = $this->getMailer()->send($message, $failures, 'local');
} catch(Exception $e) {
$this->getUser()->setFlash('error', 'Error: ' . $e->getMessage());
}